posts brought to you by the category “nattering nabobs of
negativism”
Das eez kaput! Sometime around 2002 I spaced the entire database
table that mapped individual entries to categories. Such is life.
What follows is a random sampling of entries that were associated
with the category. Over time, the entries will be updated and then it
will be even more confusing. Wander around, though, it's still a fun
way to find stuff.
A friend in New York City : "I saw that tag about 600 times before
my son told me it was his."
rue Roy, Montréal, October 2003
I woke up, every morning, at 06H30 on the dot.
Denys Arcand : "If you are into metaphors, you are going to make
very bad films."
Because it wouldn't really be a war without a Leon Golub
moment.
The Sunday Edition : What It Means To Be a Liberal
a panel discussion with Michael Ignatieff and Charles Taylor
(real audio)
Tim Schockaert : Bathroom in Lokossa (Benin)
The Connection : Extra Chairs at the Table
The General Assembly has long talked about Security Council
reform, and now voices around the world are joining the call for
change. Germany and Japan have long been considered the most likely
pledges to join the fraternity, but now India, the world's largest
democracy, is looking like a top contender. However, Russia, China,
France, Britain, and the US still wield the real muscle; the veto,
and anyone looking to sit with the grown-ups needs their unanimous
sanction.
www.poetsagainstthewar.org
Anne Troake : Pretty Big Dig
Me : foaf-to-about.xsl 0.1
[Is] an XSLT stylesheet to transform a FOAF document into an HTML
'about' page. As of this writing, the stylesheet is one of those
80/20 things. Specifically, it works but doesn't handle the
formatting of foaf:interests very well. That's not too hard to fix;
it's just a lot of typing in XSLT.
David Kobulnik : "Our technology was in our hands and in our
minds."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : tocsin
Tocsin \Toc"sin\, n. [F., fr. OF. toquier to touch, F.
toquer (originally, a dialectic form of F. toucher) + seint (for sein)
a bell, LL. signum, fr. L. signum a sign, signal. See {Touch}, and
{Sign}.] An alarm bell, or the ringing of a bell for the purpose of
alarm. The loud tocsin tolled their last alarm. --Campbell.
web1913
tocsin n 1: the sound of an alarm (usually a bell) [syn:
{alarm bell}] 2: a bell used to sound an alarm [syn: {warning bell}]
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : borejoysy
If you are a spoil-sport, you are borejoysy
ex. I dont want to go to the barn dance, I'm feeling
rather borejoysy
After the Ides of March come the Porsches of April.
5000!
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : craveable
Being able to be craved.
ex. The sandwich was very craveable.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : irascible
Irascible \I*ras"ci*ble\, a. [L. irascibilis, fr. irasci to
be angry, ira anger: cf. F. irascible. See {Ire}.] Prone to anger;
easily provoked or inflamed to anger; choleric; irritable; as, an
irascible man; an irascible temper or mood. -- {I*ras"ci*ble*ness}, n.
-- {I*ras"ci*bly}, adv.
web1913
irascible adj 1: quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded
commander" [syn: {choleric}, {hotheaded}, {hot-tempered},
{quick-tempered}, {short}, {short-tempered}] 2: characterized by anger;
"a choleric outburst"; "an irascible response" [syn: {choleric}]
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Libby Miller : A walk through an RSS 1.0 calendar
"My feeling is that for iCalendar in RDF to be
usable, a huge file describing every aspect of it is not what's needed.
Instead I've started to split it up into smallers parts, starting with
the properties and classes I've used most often when trying to describe
meetings, conferences and so on - I've called this the 'core' set."
From the salt-in-the-wounds department : 500 wins
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is putsch
| source : wn | putsch n : a sudden and decisive
change of government illegally or by force [syn: {coup d'etat}, {coup},
{takeover}]
Notes from the "Art Is Your Friend" department : Paging Dr.
Brute
Like many people, I am eager to see what Moveabletype is like,
NY Times : How We Lived the News
"At dinner that night at the seaside resort where
the president was staying, my colleagues and I did what generations of
White House reporters have done : complained about the need to drag
around with the president to the blandest of events,on the off chance
that disaster strikes." via
pssst!
(pdf)
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is hardscrabble
| source : wn | hardscrabble adj 1: yielding
little by great labor; "a hardscrabble farm"; "poor soil" [syn: {poor}]
2: of a bare living gained by great labor; "the sharecropper's
hardscrabble life"; "a marginal existence" [syn: {marginal}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is profuse
| source : web1913 | Profuse \Pro*fuse"\, v. t.
To pour out; to give or spend liberally; to lavish; to squander. [Obs.]
--Chapman. | source : web1913 | Profuse \Pro*fuse"\, a. [L. profusus, p.
p. of profundere to pour forth or out; pro forward, forth + fundere to
pour: cf. F. profus. See {Fuse} to melt.] 1. Pouring forth with fullness
or exuberance; bountiful; exceedingly liberal; giving without stint; as,
a profuse government; profuse hospitality. A green, shady bank, profuse
of flowers. --Milton. 2. Superabundant; excessive; prodigal; lavish; as,
profuse expenditure. ``Profuse ornament.'' --Kames. Syn: Lavish;
exuberant; bountiful; prodigal; extravagant. Usage: {Profuse}, {Lavish},
{Prodigal}. Profuse denotes pouring out (as money, etc.) with great
fullness or freeness; as, profuse in his expenditures, thanks, promises,
etc. Lavish is stronger, implying unnecessary or wasteful excess; as,
lavish of his bounties, favors, praises, etc. Prodigal is stronger still,
denoting unmeasured or reckless profusion; as, prodigal of one's
strength, life, or blood, to secure some object. --Dryden. | source : wn
| profuse adj : produced or growing in extreme abundance; "their riotous
blooming" [syn: {exuberant}, {lush}, {luxuriant}, {riotous}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is blackguard
| source : web1913 | Blackguard \Black"guard`\,
v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Blackguarded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Blackguarding}.] To revile or abuse in scurrilous language. --Southey. |
source : web1913 | Blackguard \Black"guard\, a. Scurrilous; abusive; low;
worthless; vicious; as, blackguard language. | source : web1913 |
Blackguard \Black"guard\, n. [Black + guard.] 1. The scullions and lower
menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who, in a removal from
one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen utensils, and being
smutted by them, were jocularly called the ``black guard''; also, the
servants and hangers-on of an army. [Obs.] A lousy slave, that . . . rode
with the black guard in the duke's carriage, 'mongst spits and dripping
pans. --Webster (1612). 2. The criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a
town or community, collectively. [Obs.] 3. A person of stained or low
character, esp. one who uses scurrilous language, or treats others with
foul abuse; a scoundrel; a rough. A man whose manners and sentiments are
decidedly below those of his class deserves to be called a blackguard.
--Macaulay. 4. A vagrant; a bootblack; a gamin. [Obs.] | source : wn |
blackguard n : someone who is morally reprehensible; "you dirty dog"
[syn: {cad}, {bounder}, {dog}, {hound}, {heel}] v 1: subject to laughter
or ridicule: "The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house";
"The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher" [syn: {ridicule},
{guy}, {laugh at}, {jest at}, {rib}, {make fun}, {poke fun}] 2: use foul
or abusive language towards; "The actress abused the policeman who gave
her a parking ticket"; "The angry mother shouted at the teacher" [syn:
{abuse}, {clapperclaw}, {shout}] | source : devils | BLACKGUARD, n. A man
whose qualities, prepared for display like a box of berries in a market
-- the fine ones on top -- have been opened on the wrong side. An
inverted gentleman.
FreeBSD Diary : Installing via wireless NIC
"I installed a wireless NIC into my desktop,
configured it to act as a gateway, enabled NAT, and used that as the
gateway for my laptop. The laptop then communicated with the gateway
using its own wireless NIC. Together, these two boxes allowed me to do an
install on the laptop using wireless. This was after I'd failed using the
laptop's CD, which I now know is broken."
Jeffrey Pinyan : Sex, Eger!
"or Reverse Regular Expressions."
Notwithstanding everything else that's happening in Quebec
city,
Brian Aker : mod_index_rss
"provides RSS output for directories. Sites that
publish mainly static content to directories (whether images, html...)
can use it to have dynamic lists of their content."
How much do you want to bet
that the clever propeller-heads at Apple are
beavering away on some kind of funky plasma casing that pulls a lava lamp
when you play MP3s on your next iMac?
National Post : "Another Heritage ministry spokesperson suggested
an actor such as Mr. Douglas
could be designated a person of "national
historic significance," which is driven largely by nominations by the
Canadian public. ... To be declared of national historic significance, an
individual must make "an outstanding and lasting contribution to Canadian
history" and prove "a representative example of an important aspect of
Canadian history."
developerWorks : An Introduction to RDF
"Many proclaim that RDF is really the XML's
killer app, and with good reason. Despite all this, RDF remains somewhat
obscure. This is mainly because at its core RDF is very abstract, very
dry, and very academic. With this article I hope to illustrate why RDF is
very important to anyone interested in XML."
Dr. Bruno : Evaluating content management for Bell Media
John Siracusa : QuickTime 5 changes: the good, the bad, the
ugly
"Watch as your computer connects to some Apple QT
codec server, downloads the codec QT component, installs it in the
appropriate place, and then plays the movie."
My friend John is directing a live webcast
from Halifax today at 13h00 (Atlantic.) "A
Splendid Torch, A Nova Scotia Youth Arts Showcase is being produced to
celebrate the artistic drive and excellence of young Nova Scotian
artists."
As futher evidence that the end is nigh,
The Globe and Mail : "When Stockwell Day held up a
magic-markered
sign saying "No 2-tier health care," decorum
disappeared from the studio where political spinners sat watching last
night's debate. ... Mr. Day was breaking the rules, and even his own
advisers groaned audibly when he produced the crudely handmade sign. He
hadn't consulted with them about the prop, and they knew immediately it
was a bad idea." It's not just his politics that bother me. The problem
with Stockwell Day is that he appears to have no appreciation for the
subtleties of life. He's like that annoying brainiac you went to school
with. The one who devoured encyclopaedia cover to cover and thought, not
only, that he knew all the answers because of it but that it afforded him
the right to lord it over you. The one with whom it was impossible to
have any kind of intelligent or thoughtful discussion because the idea of
conversation meant only an exchange of facts and statistics, devoid of
any consideration for the other's point of view, designed to prove the
error of your thinking. That, and he has terrible hand-writing.
Let the Aaronschlock begin!
This has actually been available for a while, but
I had the samples shipped to the States so I had no idea what they looked
like until now. There's more to come too...
Eat, Link & Be Merry : "Five pounds of sliced rare beef,
embedded in a vast drumlin of clear aspic.
You don't really want to eat such a thing; you
want to be seated at the table where it might be served."
Globe and Mail : Dot-com this!
"Reid hears something else, when his "geek"
friends and colleagues are talking. 'Knowledge is what's valued in this
industry, and that's how people speak,' he says. 'There's a rapid-fire
passing back and forth of facts, it's almost like a pissing contest, in
the way it sounds. But it's just exchanging knowledge. There's no wisdom
or value attached.' "
Amazing but true!
Alphanumerica : Mozilla Theme Builder
"Creating a theme with the Theme Builder requires
no programming. The Theme Builder will create the code needed through
using pull down menus and checkboxes that contain all the different
options available for creating a theme for the Mozilla browser."
The "Making the Macintosh" series debuts today
Patrick Hess : class.tree.php3
"gives you an easy way to create expandable tree
lists." mmmmm ..... easy. The clever lad also wrote a php class for
generating
overLib dialogue
boxes
( warning : very very broken in IE5 Mac. ) Clever lad.
NY Times : Voyeur-Cams Come to Home Furnishings
"But like many shoppers, I suspect, I was more
intrigued by other shoppers' preferences to gain insight into what I
might want to buy. I am the kind of person who will not order a meal
until I have surreptitiously eyed diners at the tables to see which
entrees they have chosen. In retail, as in restaurants, another
consumer's interest adds value to any purchase I am considering."
Michael Stutz : Managing Documents With SGMLtools
Ars Technica on Physical Home Networking: An Installation
Guide
Claude Lalumiere : A Short History of American Comic Books
I haven't seen or spoken to Claude in years, but
he used to run one of the very best comix shops ever and for that he is
The Man (not to be confused with
the man
.)
For those of you in serious contract negotiations
The Electrohippies Collective
Serge Halami on the Cyberdamned
"It's like Communist China under Mao," explains
one of the new economy's production-line workers, "you're constantly
being pushed to help the collective. If you fail to do this, you're going
against your family. But if this is a family, it belongs on the Jerry
Springer show."
The New Scientist on fluid dynamics
Four songs
Yusuf Islam
"As I look back at those songs they are an open
book. It was a time of learning and growing. When I first embraced Islam
I rejected everything. I wanted to make a clean break with the past. But
on reflection there are many things in those songs that remain true
today. My music still stands as something gentle and meaningful and
significant."
U.S. Census Bureau : Computer Use and Ownership
Le Devoir : La loi 101 est nécessaire, selon Alexa McDonough
"Mme McDonough estime qu'avec la prédominance de
l'anglais en Amérique du Nord, «c'est évident qu'il faut avoir des lois
pour protéger le français». Elle ajoute que la protection de la langue
française est quelque chose de «très important, même pour le Canada».
Elle dit être en accord avec les principes de la loi 101 et n'avoir
aucune réserve sur son contenu actuel."
The Anti-Rudy on the Sensation show
"I share the feeling that I know many New Yorkers
have that there are parts of this exhibit that would be deeply
offensive,'`I would not go to see this exhibit.' [But] it is not
appropriate to penalize and punish an institution such as the Brooklyn
Museum.'' Thanks Hillary, I think. Meanwhile, the NY Civil Liberties
Union is holding a rally on Friday in support of the show, but there's
nothing about it on their
website
.
Floyd proved to be
decidedly underwhelming here on the
Vineyard
- a good thing. The worst of it, for me, was the humidity which made me
want to clean my ears every five minutes and waking up feeling hung over
even though I had nothing to drink last night.
Via Mr. Barrett, comes sad news
that the next Bob & Doug movie has been
canned. To mark this unfortunate turn of events, let's all just stop and
take a quiet moment out of our day to
take off, eh?
mp3.
Boom!
I think I'm going to iScream
Live Ani DiFranco MP3s
of questionable legality.
MacOS OSS
Vincenzo Natali
"Listen to this: It's the world's first Luddite
slasher film, where the Bell employee's actually a mad anti-technologist,
stabbing at computer circuit boards using primitive implements." Natali,
who directed the incredibly creepy film
Cube
, was musing on the recent
phone
meltdown in Toronto
.
M-J Milloy on the Cirque en CA$H
“Dans notre quartier/ On chauffe pas de
gros chars/ Dans notre quartier/ On reste pas dans des forts/ Mais on est
fier/ On est fort/ On a quelque chose à dire/ On est fier/ On est fort/
On reste à Centre-sud...”
wtf?
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dude, where's my car
This document uses
CSS
kung-fu and a small amount of JavaScript for rendering its
contents. Efforts have been made to separate the form from the
content so if you are viewing this in a text-based browser it
shouldn't be an issue.
On the other hand it may look funny if you are viewing it in a
browser with incomplete
CSS
and/or JavaScript implementations. Internet Explorer 6 comes to
mind.
It's not that I don't love you. However, my time is limited and
I no longer feel very good about spending it working around any one
browser's inconsistencies with little, or no, confidence that they
will ever be fixed or otherwise made more inconsistent at some
later date.
On the other hand, if something is down-right
unreadable
please let me know and I will endeavour to fix it.
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yes, we have no bananas
This page may not validate. It's not that I don't care, it's
just that I'm not aware of it yet. Part of the reason that I
rewrote the entire back-end for managing this site is that the old
stuff made it too easy for these kinds of mistakes to slip through
the cracks.
See also :
W3C::LogValidator.pm
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it's the software, stupid
Use the source, Luke.
